Canadian AIr Transport Security Authority

[ocscan]

Noticed while browsing the TAFL today 4 frequencies licensed to CATSA. Ottawa 857.8875, Maritimes 857.8125, Praries 859.3325. And a Canada Wide Portable license for 458.6625. Not monitored any traffic yet. Nothing listed for Toronto or Vancouver. I know Pre-board Screening in Toronto useds LPE-200's.

 

[exkalibur]

Actually, CATSA at Pearson use XTS portables and are on the Peel system. They use some of the CBSA talkgroups, although I'm not sure which.

 

[mbstone99]

Catsa

I think they are in one if not maybe more of the CBSA TG's if I am not mistaken.

37616 92f A GTA Region
37648 931 Passenger Operations
37680 933 A Passenger Operations T1
37712 935 A Passenger Operations T2
37744 937 A Passenger Operations T3
37776 939 A Passenger Operations ICET
37808 93b A Passenger Operations POE
37840 93d Passenger Opperations ICET Rover Command
37872 93f A Passenger Operations DART
37904 941 Passenger Operations ICET Plain Clothes
37936 943 A Passenger Operations Internal Conspiracy
37968 945 A Commercial Operations Secondary
38000 947 A Commercial Operations FRT
38032 949 A Commercial Operations CANPASS
38064 94b A Commercial Operations CBRC
38096 94d International Mail
38128 94f A CFIA
38160 951 GTEC
38192 953 A Repeater1
38224 955 Repeater2
38256 957 Ferry
38288 959 A Passenger Operations Managment Team
38320 95b Investigations
38352 95d Intelligence and Drugs
38384 95f Commercial Operations Management Team
38448 963 A CBSA
38544 969 A CBSA

Matt

 

[BC_Scan]

In Vancouver they are on the YVR Motorola trunk (not exciting listening) If I hadn't figured out the new talkgroup I would have thought it was the other airlines humping bags as that is what fills the majority of that trunk up.

 

[Jay911]

I'd like to believe they're using 859.3375 here in Calgary - that is licensed to them, and I hear traffic on it. But the traffic has an unusual "chop" to it; there's a regular, constant drop of the signal even if I am close to the airport. If I turn the squelch all the way down, I hear total static when the signal "drops". The people communicating don't appear to have any problems hearing each other, despite this..

 

[exkalibur]

They USED to use LPE200's at Pearson on an EDACS system... but those radios have since been sold off.

 

[polkaroo]

I'd like to believe they're using 859.3375 here in Calgary - that is licensed to them, and I hear traffic on it. But the traffic has an unusual "chop" to it; there's a regular, constant drop of the signal even if I am close to the airport. If I turn the squelch all the way down, I hear total static when the signal "drops". The people communicating don't appear to have any problems hearing each other, despite this..

I said that too about some conventional chatter on the Toronto Police system, but I could never pin down what caused it. Basically every 1.5 to 2 seconds, there's a total voice and carrier dropout for a split second. It soun.... like this so when yo... ear conversations you ge...rop words.

 

[mciupa]

Noticed while browsing the TAFL today 4 frequencies licensed to CATSA. Ottawa 857.8875, Maritimes 857.8125, Praries 859.3325. And a Canada Wide Portable license for 458.6625. Not monitored any traffic yet. Nothing listed for Toronto or Vancouver. I know Pre-board Screening in Toronto useds LPE-200's.

The OPP may have a block of simplex freq's in the Toronto area in the 458 range.

I believe they are licensed to use 458.5625 and 458.8625 ,and ".6625" is in the middle , don't know ,this is pure conjecture.

Listening to 458 to 459 range in Toronto and just hearing "business" chatter all day (nothing CATSA OR OPP)

 

[electricsheep]

Here in Edmonton I entered those CATSA freqs about a year ago and never heard a peep. Even when I have to go to the airport to pick someone up there's no traffic that I have evere heard. I am not sure they are using radios in Edmonton (?!). Or if they are, I don't think it's on the freqs licensed to CATSA.

 

[ocscan]

Actually, CATSA at Pearson use XTS portables and are on the Peel system. They use some of the CBSA talkgroups, although I'm not sure which.

I was refering to the Pre-Board Screeners...they wear CATSA uniforms, but are employees of Garda of Canada. Before Christmas one of the senior service delivery managers at T1 was chatting to a supervisor on an LPE-200. The Actual CATSA employees do use Motorola equipement.

 

[exkalibur]

Yes I know about Garda...a friend of mind is the catsa duty manager there.. he carrys an xts portable. He can call aocc direct on the vcomm system.